Since the first round, Europe has established itself as one of the strong subjects between the President, who agitates the spectrum of the “Frexit” which he would like his competitor, and the far-right candidate, who Militaway for an “Alliance of Nations”.
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Three European Heads of Government from the Social Democrats – Spanish Pedro Sanchez, Portuguese Antonio Costa, German Olaf Scholz – took the pen, in [Nute] Friday, April 22, to interfere in The French election campaign. On behalf of Europe, they call the French not to choose the extreme right and Marine Le Pen. It is an unprecedented approach, which says how much the hexagonal vote anguish Europeans.
In ordinary, the twenty-seven guard to take part, when one of them faces an election deadline: they know that they will be brought to negotiate with the winner, whatever. In general, they are mostly at the heart of showing a Europe outside the political fighting, concerned with not being accused of interference.
But France is not any country – founding member of the European Union (EU), it is one of its pillars – and the only possibility of seeing the candidate of the National National (RN ), openly Europhobe, enter the Elysee, worried at the highest point, from Berlin to The Hague, via Rome, Madrid or Copenhagen.
“There was Trump, there was the Brexit, we did not believe it. I will not be reassured when I would see the result of the second round,” says the President of the Green Group in the European Parliament, Philippe Lamberts. “Five years ago, within the institutions, we wondered if Marine Le Pen would be in the second round. Today, we wonder if she will win,” Eric Maurice, Manager, in Brussels, from the Robert Foundation -Schuman. A Marine Le Pen victory “would be worse than the Brexit and worse than Trump,” says a Central European diplomat in Paris (the people quoted whose name does not appear wanted to keep anonymity).
The Europeans have ensured not to put Emmanuel Macron in difficulty during the campaign, especially about the embargo on the Russian oil to which it is nevertheless favorable. In fact, if the twenty-seven were to agree to no longer buy, hoping to dry up Vladimir Putin’s revenues to finance his war in Ukraine, it is likely that the price of fuels would fly immediately. This would give Marine Le Pen of new arguments, which is the candidate of purchasing power and is opposed to the stop of Russian oil imports.
In this context, no one in Brussels has sought to accelerate discussions that are complex, if only because Hungary does not want to hear about such an embargo. “Even if it does not do anything official or formal, we do not want to complicate the life of Macron”, entrusts a diplomat.
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